A new platform or medium comes along. You make a first-pass judgment about whether to even join it, based largely on whether you think you can cohere an inhabitable persona on it, and whether you have the time to participate on it. If you decide to give it a shot, you go on, you try a few experimental personas on for size, and as one starts to gel, you become present on the platform. There is now something it is like to be you on Platform X.

The proof of how useless some of their answers turned out to be is how little effect they have. No one after reading Aristotle's Metaphysics does anything differently as a result.

there are not only those who give orders but those who give advice as to what orders should be given.

Where is the fat stored? is a generally important question to ask about systems.

And every time I met a new woman it felt as though I were unconsciously longing to relive that dazzling moment I’d experienced in a dim school hallway

it forces me to admit, all over again, that my youthful dreams are gone forever.

correctness, importance, and strength. In effect the four components are like numbers you can multiply together to get a score for usefulness.

So I go look for a textbook on State and Local Government. Doesn’t exist. So I grab the syllabus and look at what sorts of things need explaining.

you are still the one choosing which questions to ask

another transaction form that is seen often on the bitcoin ledger is a transaction that distributes one input to multiple outputs representing multiple recipients

For him, the planets were horses whose reins the sun held; for Kepler, they were gears the sun wound by a physical force.

bigger Big Men and more abundance underwritten by them

better apps

It should be obvious, but 99% of humanity does not even understand these constructs, let alone naturally gravitate to them to explain situations or solve problems. In my experience, engineers who identify as engineers are really uncomfortable playing Big Man, and harbor deep hatred towards those who do.

ergodicity

The Theory and Function of Duende